Hi guys,
I was flying my MP at the Dover white cliffs on Saturday, getting some nice pics and video and at one point in the flight I was lining up to get a photo of the lighthouse. All of a sudden my drone started wobbling around as though something had crashed in to it.
Even though I could see the lighthouse from where I was standing, my drone was about 1200 feet away from me at 200 ft altitude, so it was too small to see clearly with the naked eye and so I didn't see anything approach it.
I figured that a bird was attacking it, probably a Seagull, so almost instantly I stuck it in to Sport and tried to floor it back to me. Whilst doing so, my Mavic was still being knocked around from whatever it was in 2 or 3 second intervals and I was struggling to maintain direction. Whilst this was happening I saw something white in the far top right hand corner of the image on my screen. I figured that Sport mode was not outrunning whatever it is attacking the Mavic and was thinking any sec now its going to drop out the sky.
My heart was pounding fast in my chest and after about 15-20 seconds, the shaking had stopped and it was on it's way back to me. I was still in shock and was preparing to see some serious damage to my drone.
I Got it back and checked it for damage. Apart from some very minor scratches on the blades, it was absolutely fine. I was bloody lucky!
The Mavic Pro is clever and must have a sensor built in to start recording a clip when something hits it.
I wasn't recording at the time but it auto-recorded a 3 second clip at the first impact which doesn't save to the sd card, only within the dji go app.
Here it is: 2019_03_30_16_02_33 - Streamable
So lucky!
I was flying my MP at the Dover white cliffs on Saturday, getting some nice pics and video and at one point in the flight I was lining up to get a photo of the lighthouse. All of a sudden my drone started wobbling around as though something had crashed in to it.
Even though I could see the lighthouse from where I was standing, my drone was about 1200 feet away from me at 200 ft altitude, so it was too small to see clearly with the naked eye and so I didn't see anything approach it.
I figured that a bird was attacking it, probably a Seagull, so almost instantly I stuck it in to Sport and tried to floor it back to me. Whilst doing so, my Mavic was still being knocked around from whatever it was in 2 or 3 second intervals and I was struggling to maintain direction. Whilst this was happening I saw something white in the far top right hand corner of the image on my screen. I figured that Sport mode was not outrunning whatever it is attacking the Mavic and was thinking any sec now its going to drop out the sky.
My heart was pounding fast in my chest and after about 15-20 seconds, the shaking had stopped and it was on it's way back to me. I was still in shock and was preparing to see some serious damage to my drone.
I Got it back and checked it for damage. Apart from some very minor scratches on the blades, it was absolutely fine. I was bloody lucky!
The Mavic Pro is clever and must have a sensor built in to start recording a clip when something hits it.
I wasn't recording at the time but it auto-recorded a 3 second clip at the first impact which doesn't save to the sd card, only within the dji go app.
Here it is: 2019_03_30_16_02_33 - Streamable
So lucky!
